...DMB/380 February 10th 2014 DMB/380 February 10th 2014 Art Museum Database By: For the past couple of years, a local art Museum has been collecting different art pieces from various artists. The Museum then displays the art throughout different galleries across town. The collection has significantly grown and it is now complicated for the museum to keep track of the many different artist and their different art pieces and collections, as well as where the art is located, whether it is stored in different galleries or the Museum itself. It is important for the Museum to develop a database that can keep track of the different art pieces, the artists, the different locations the pieces can be located and a total amount of pieces collected since it continues to grow at a very fast rate. The database will help the Museum substantially as well as the artists who create many various art pieces. Problems and Constraints The Museum continues to grow and it has become difficult for the manager and staff to keep track of the art collection. Not having a database that can tie the artist with his art and the location of it has caused the Museum to lose some of the different art pieces which in return equal financial losses to the Museum. Another problem the Museum continues to have is keeping track of when and where the art is being displayed. Most of the art is displayed for a period of time throughout the different galleries then either stored back...
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...The MMA is one of the most public in the country, and more heavily dependent on the mem- bership contribution than any other [museum]. Like most, it is underendowed and underfunded from reliable public funds. In fact, the American Association of Museums reports that only about 60 percent of America’s 2000-plus art museums have enough income from their endowment to cover their operating costs. Nevertheless, this institu- tion has chosen to be public, with free access, and this is very noble. It is wonderful that the museum has decided not to belong to an agglomeration of very rich people. This museum has more character than it thinks it has. It has the best balanced collection between Western and non-Western art of any museum in the country. We have not chosen to sell or promote the unique aspects of this collection or the museum’s emphasis on historical context.What we have are the makings of an institu- tion that is very different from other museums, and we ought to be able to make that into an advantage rather than apologize for...
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...Will Hawkins is the Museum Coordinator at the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, home of The Westervelt Collection. Mr. Hawkins graduated from Huntington College in Montgomery, AL with a degree in History. After college, he began working in the restaurant industry and continued for 15 years. While working in Tuscaloosa, he began volunteering with the Tuscaloosa Museum of Art, and shortly after, he was hired as a member of the staff and worked his way up to becoming the Museum Coordinator. The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art houses The Westervelt Collection comprised of approximately 1000 works of fine and decorative arts. The collection was amassed by Jack Warner as investments for Gulf States Paper, now the Westervelt Company. Operating under a nonprofit foundation, the museum was asked by the Westervelt Company to share its collection with the community. Being a collection that was pieced together simply by the tastes of one man, the Westervelt Collection is remarkably cohesive. Hawkins stated that's he is always amazed at the story told through the pieces of art. There are four paid staff members at the museum. Mr. Hawkins and Kathy Thurman are the only two professional staff members. The museum employs two part-time college students. Mr. Hawkins’s duties as Museum Coordinator include a very wide range of daily tasks. From handling the art to training docents and from scheduling tours to giving them himself, Hawkins’s day is packed with many different tasks. The museum has gone through...
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...Olowe of Ise “It is insufficiently understood that a museums power lies not in the possession of objects and collections, but in the acceptance of its authority to name them by both label and context. This is the most jealously guarded divine right of the museum as the curator of soi-disant public collections” – Duncan F. Cameron. Duncan F. Cameron served as a museum curator and director in the Brooklyn Museum in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn, the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. Duncan served in the museum from 1971-1974. An artist once told me, “Art is in the eyes of the beholder” – anonymous. It’s a statement with a broad perspective of thought and meditation. First I would like to give an example of what the quote by Duncan meant can be seen by the work of Constantine Petridis, a museum curator of African art gallery in the Cleveland Museum of art. He explains objects from the same culture are displayed together and differentiated with those of their neighbors. This concept shows the formal and stylistic relationships between neighboring and familiar artistic customs or traditions that ex-plains the distinctiveness of the arts of distinct people. An addition to the regional framework, thematic connections are highlighted through the use of gallery cards which explain topics of artists, leadership, masks and masquerades, styles and the supernatural. Gallery cards provide photo, descriptions and narrative text linking...
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.................................................................... 5 3. Composing the Project Group............................................................................................ 6 4. What: Specifying the Collection ........................................................................................ 7 4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 7 4.2 Subject ........................................................................................................................ 7 4.3 Character and extent .................................................................................................... 7 4.4. Information about the collection ................................................................................. 8 4.5 Results......................................................................................................................... 8 5. Why: Reasons for Digitising and Disclosing the Collection ............................................... 9 5.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 9 5.2 What is the social and cultural significance of the collection? ...................................... 9 5.3 What is the present importance of the...
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...* 1. PRIMARY ANDSECONDARY DATA We explore the availability and use of data (primary and secondary) in the field of business research.Specifically, we examine an international sample of doctoral dissertations since 1998, categorizingresearch topics, data collection, and availability of data. Findings suggest that use of only primarydata pervades the discipline, despite strong methodological reasons to augment with secondary data.IBRAHIM NAVEENReg. No. IPHRM 5001Diploma in Human Resource Management Batch 01INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT * 2. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA CONTENTSINTRODUCTION --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02IMPORTANCE OF DATA AND DATA COLLECTION --------------------------------- 02DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES ------------------------------------------------------- 02PRIMARY DATA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03IMPORTANCE OF PRIMARY DATA ------------------------------------------------------- 03SOURCES OF PRIMARY DATA -------------------------------------------------------------- 04ADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ----------------------------------------------- 05DISADVANTAGES OF PRIMARY RESEARCH ------------------------------------------ 07SECONDARY DATA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY DATA --------------------------------------------------- 08SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA ...
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...Discussion of Instructional Problem 3 Differences between Current and Desired State 4 Current Conditions 4 Desired Conditions 4 Data Collection Processes 5 Data Collection Instruments 5 Discussion of Data Collection Instruments Used 5 Sources of Data 5 Discussion of Sources of Data 5 Table 1 – Training Survey 6 Table 2 – Exit Interview Survey 6 Data from Other Sources 7 Summary of Results 7 Data Analysis Techniques 7 Data Results 7 Table 3 8 Table 4 8 Findings of Needs Analysis 9 Goal Statement 10 Appendix A 10 References 10 Discussion of Instructional Problem In my corporate training environment, I have the privilege of training a racially diverse population. The hiring practices of Williams-Sonoma, Inc (hereinafter WSI) provides for a diverse group of people in every training class. Like many companies WSI does not discriminate on the basis of color, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Our company philosophy is to hire new employees every season for our peak sales period. Of the new employees hired, we retain approximately 10-25% as permanent employees. During the on-boarding we train over 500 new employees every season in a fast-paced hands-on instructor-led training environment. I am one of several trainers that deliver on-boarding training for the new hires. Our training gives each employee the tools to navigate the computer system to take sales calls and to service existing customers with issues on their purchases or...
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...across Australia and New Zealand. TPI is also a player in the domestic heavy-duty commercial vehicles industry. Cleanaway: The division is an operator in the solid waste sector in Australia. Services provided include: (i) Collections - commercial & industrial, municipal and residential collection services for all types of solid waste streams; (ii) Post Collections - ownership and management of waste transfer stations, resource recovery and recycling facilities, secure product destruction, quarantine treatment operations and landfills; and (iii) Commodities trading - sale of recovered paper, cardboard, metals and plastics to the domestic and international marketplace. Address: Phone: Fax: Website: ACN: ABN: Level 1, 159 Coronation Drive Milton, QLD 4064 +61 7 3367 7800 +61 7 3367 7878 www.transpacific.com.au 101 155 220 74 101 155 220 Sector: Share Price: Market Cap: Shares Issue: Industrials $1.09 (25/07/2014) $1,722 million 1,579 million New Zealand: Transpacific Waste Management in New Zealand is a provider of solid waste services in the market, including collection, recycling, landfill construction and operation. Industrial services include the operation of specialist facilities, liquid and hazardous waste collection and treatment and emergency response. Commercial Vehicles: The Commercial Vehicles Group is the exclusive distributor of Western Star trucks, MAN trucks and buses and Dennis Eagle trucks, together with associated parts...
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...Marketing Research test 2 Chapter 3 Secondary Data: -Data not gathered for the immediate study at hand. - Primary reason is to save time and money -Internal Secondary Data: -External Secondary Data -Sales Invoice -Periodicals -Accounts Receivable -Statistical Sources -Reports -Government Documents -Warranty Cards -Consumer Panels -Customer Letters -Past Research Results -Current Databases Literature Review: -Comprehensive examination of secondary info related to your research topic. -Provides background and contextual information -reveals whether info already exists -clarifies research problem and questions Syndicated Data -market research data that is collected, packaged and sold to different firms. -3 Common Methods: -Consumer Panels: large samples of households agree to provide data for an extended amount of time -Store Audits: formal examination and verification of how much a product or brand has been sold at the retail level -Optical Scanner Technology: point of purchase data is collected Hypotheses: suggests a relationship between variables 2 Types of Hypotheses: 1. Descriptive: Possible answer to specific business problems. 3 steps: 1. Review Research Problems 2. Write Down Questions 3. Brainstorm possible answers 2. Causal: theoretical statements about relationships between variables. Help businesses understand how to make changes. -What are the Relationships between variables? -Positive...
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...BISE – RESEARCH PAPER Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study It is becoming more and more important for knowledge workers to increase their productivity. However, there is a general lack of (semi-)automated, IT-supported data collection and evaluation approaches that allow insights into the processes and structures of an enterprise’s internal networks and the activities of its knowledge workers. The article presents a prototype of an IT-supported instrument (“Social Badges”) that supports automatic collection of informal, personal interaction between (knowledge) workers within an enterprise. The authors’ aim is to introduce a novel approach which improves data quality over legacy methods. The approach uses Social Network Analysis (SNA) to make it easier for executives to analyze and manage informal communications networks. Its practical applicability is demonstrated by a case study. DOI 10.1007/s12599-008-0018-z The Authors Dr. Kai Fischbach Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder Seminar for Business Informatics and Information Management University of Cologne Pohligstr. 1 50969 Cologne Germany {fischbach | schoder}@ wim.uni-koeln.de 1 Introduction If the formal organization is the skeleton of a company, the informal is the central nervous system driving the collective thought processes, actions, and reactions of its business units. (Krackhardt and Hanson 1993, p. 104) Both the volume and importance of knowledge workers are growing as industrialized countries...
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...Management of Accounts Receivable December 1997 Contents Preface Introduction The Accounts Receivable Process Re-Engineering Accounts Receivable Risk Management Use of Advanced Technology Debt Collection Processes Performance Measurement Appendix Preface This guide accompanies the Auditor-General’s Audit Report No. 29, Management of Accounts Receivable in the Commonwealth. It is intended to provide an overview of the current trends and "better practice" approaches that are being adopted by organisations in managing accounts receivable. In the commercial world the way in which organisations manage their accounts receivable has significant implications for the financial health of those organisations. This creates an imperative to ensure the management of receivables is both efficient and effective. The practices used in common business processes such as accounts receivable management have universal application and are not industry specific. In this regard there are lessons to be learned by others from the practices followed by organisations for whom accounts receivable is a core business process. The better practices discussed in this guide are therefore recommended for consideration by Commonwealth government agencies. Not all of the practices outlined in this guide will suit each agency’s circumstances, however, it is considered that most agencies, which derive revenue on sale of goods and services on credit terms, will benefit from benchmarking their current practices...
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...Instructions for the FAP: Field Application Project Handbook Professor Katherine Klein MGMT 621/653 June 2012 This document is a resource for you to use as you plan and carry out your team’s Field Application Project for this class. As described in detail below, you and your team will gather data within an organizational unit, diagnose the challenges the unit is facing, and prescribe action steps the unit can take to overcome these challenges and realize new opportunities. The process of carrying out the FAP is both challenging and rewarding. You will gain valuable knowledge and experience as you work with your team, gather and analyze data to gain an understanding of the roots of the unit’s management dynamics and tensions, and propose a course of action to enhance the unit’s effectiveness. Each year, the FAP reports and presentations are incisive, constructive, and fascinating. I look forward to talking with you about your FAP over the course of the semester and to reading about and hearing your team’s FAP findings and recommendations. CONTENTS 1. Introduction to the Field Application Project 2. Timetable / Project Requirements 3. Choosing a Site 4. Gaining Access 5. Working in Your Study Group 6. General Principles and Guidelines for Data Collection 7. Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Data-Gathering Approaches a. Archival Data b. Interviews c. “Shadowing” Job Incumbents ...
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...social needs of the youth and the psychological needs of the entire family. This will be done by providing crisis intervention, parenting skills training, substance abuse services, mentoring, educational tutoring and intensive care coordination. Our main goal is to help these children and their families to live together in a productive, peaceful, healthy, stimulating and nurturing environment. Our long term vision is to expand our services or franchise our service model into the international markets of Canada and/or Bermuda. The international market of Canada was chosen because over the last 10 years it has been reported that there has been an increasing need to provide services to children. It has also been reported by the Human Resources Development Canada that there were over 36,000 children in the care of Canada in 1997.1 There is a great concern about the growing number of children that are being served through group care and the possible implication that there is a shortage of family-based services that are causing many children to be inappropriately placed in group-care settings. Market Research Plan Over the past 2 years, the State of Virginia has taken an aggressive approach in addressing Virginia’s behavioral health care system as it relates to children. In , a total of 18 separate reports or studies were conducted and consolidated...
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...problems are poor work performance and lessening of morale. Company X attempted to determine what the problem was through exit interviews but were unsuccessful. A survey, developed by Susan H, was administered. It did not produce any useful results. Susan suggested a second, improved survey. The new survey changed the focus from why a current employee may be unhappy or quit to those who had already voluntarily left Company X. Company X wants to know why employees are dissatisfied. The hypothesis remains the same--low morale is causing a higher than usual employee turnover and poor work performance. The purpose of this study is to explore the different ways that Company X employees are affected by their work. Instrument for Data Collection Company X used surveys to collect data from their employees. The first survey had several flaws: bias, awkward wording, unasked questions, and data entry errors. A new survey was created. The effectiveness of this survey was increased by pretesting a sample survey before releasing it to the employees. This new survey was completed during exit interviews by Susan's staff to accumulate the 78 surveys. The survey consisted of questions on what employees thought about different aspects of their job. They were also specifically asked to state the primary reason for their decision to quit. The survey had ratings from one to five, one for Do Not Agree and five for Strongly Agree. Types of...
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...Course Title: Thesis Paper A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prof. Dr. Md. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Prepared For: Anisur Rahman ChowdhuryRoll-117, Section A18th batchDepartment of MarketingUniversity of Dhaka | Prepared By: Submission Date: 31 March, 2016 Letter of Transmittal March 30, 2016 Prof. Dr. Masudur Rahman Professor Department of Marketing University of Dhaka Subject: A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” Dear Sir, This is an immense pleasure to submit my thesis paper on A Research Paper on “How brand elements influence the consumers’ purchase intention of a brand: A study on Horlicks and GlaxoSmithKline” as a partial fulfillment of BBA program. I hope this paper is informative and comprehensive as per your instruction. Here, I have worked with the consumer of “Horlicks” and tried to analyze their feedback to find out the impact of brand elements of “Horlicks & GlaxoSmithKline” on their purchase intention of Horlicks. Now, I am very grateful to you for your valuable supervision, precious time, effort and support throughout...
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